I have two gerry stoves, one with the modification, one not modified. I wonder why the orifice on your burner is that short. It should be more than .75 of an inch as show here notice I use a pad paper with 1/4 inch line spacing for reference purposes. And here is a picture of the hose attached to the orifice of the gerry stove. The gray line depicts the brass ring soldered (not shown) in the orifice to make the hose secure and the other end shown here to the lindal valve adapter The hose I used has a 200psi rating which I bought from an automotive racing store and the OD is 1/4 inch while the ID is about 1/8 inch. Reason for soldering the brass ring on the gerry orifice is that the orifice is still slightly smaller than 1/8. Putting the brass ring brings it up to 1/8 inch and keeps the hose from coming off after clamping with oetiker clamps. On the adaptor, I had to add inner tube bicycle rubber on the outside before sliding in the clamp to secure it since the adaptor's orifice have wedge tooth to hold the rubber in place. Hope this helps and I am clear enough in my explanation. I believe I still have a bit of rubber hose if you are going ahead with the project. The adaptor shown was purchased from ebay seller plus2city. It came with a flimsy (dangerous) hose which I did not use since the hose wall thickness was too thin I would imagine some future time it would rupture and God know what happens. Ron The usual CAVEAT applies when trying to modify any stove. At your own risk.....
Thanks for the pictures, and help "The extended orifice measures .095 inches which is about 3/32 (less than 1/8 inch)." I was measuring the diameter, a little less than 1/8th inch, length is same as your picture. I would appreciate acquiring a length of hose from you, the other parts I located, brass wire, clamps, etc.; the only hose I found of is very low pressure. I'll give you a PM Here some listings by plus2city: Is any one of these look good for to form adaptor?: http://cgi.ebay.com/Spare-gas-tube-...702?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1b14ce7e http://cgi.ebay.com/Spare-gas-tube-...amping_CookingSupplies_ET&hash=item1c1b14ced0
Yes, thanks for the pics and the info on the Gerry stove mod! Is there anyplace that a lindal value adapter can be found in the USA? This is all I have found: http://plus2city.com/plus2store/goods.php?id=73
Hi jsclarkk and darto501 thats where I bought the adapter from but did not use the hose since if you cut the hose you will see what I mean when I say the wall of the hose is almost as thin as paper which in my book is a no-no. Alternatively, if you find a donor connector from the primus gassies it will also work. Brass wire can be purchased at OSH. Make sure you sand paper down the orifice and brass wire well before doing the soldering and that no solder goes into the hole where the gass is suppose to enter. The one ear oetiker clamps are sold on ebay. Ron
Best Backpacking Stove review I though I would post this for future reference. It's an older threat but something that a lot of people ask frequently.
good point geeves. Happy Holidays AR, Crux & Nova are there at far right. I doubt even contributors to the 1-14 sequence agree completely, I'm comfortable saying it's flawed BUT is a good reference for comparisons. Thx for posting it Pstm. The Popular GigaPower was not included . IF gigapower and pocket rocket are compact isobutane canister types in direct competition? I gathered specs to compare the 2 but note published specs can be bolstered (laughable) and these are not from the same source. There is some info here for the comparison: Pocket Rocket -|- GigaPower >retail: $40 -|- $50 >weight oz.: 3.00 -|- 3.75 >dims. inches: 4.1x2.1x2 -|- 3.6 x 2.0 x 1.8 >burn time max flame 8 oz.: 60 min. -|- 85 min. >btu: 8,200 -|- 10,000 >boil times 0.5L -|- 1.0L 0.5L / 2 mins 8 secs -|- 1.0L / 4 mins 48 secs >auto ignite: no -|- yes note re burn time & btu numbers rather than see GigaPower with a huge plus there, I see it more likely there are mistakes w/their numbers there. As I said above GigaPower is popular (kinda why i did this) but I would not declare a winner based on any btu specs. imo
It sure looks like it. Even the fuel canisters are MSR and they may even have a white gas can in there from MSR. With that said, I have found this website to be one of the better review sites. I do not always agree with their findings for my specific situation but their evaluations are quite solid. I just thought I would pass the info along as one of many sources to use when making decisions. My personal take is that the findings are weighted to canister stoves that cost $1 per ounce of fuel to run vs. white gas or multi-fuel stoves that run on fuels that cost pennies an ounce. But then again weight is the primary concern as light = speed= safety in backpacking. Cost and reliability are lower priorities on the list. Underlying assumptions may be different for each person.
I was a fan of the Giga Power, and for quite a while it was my go to stove, before I found alcohol-burning chimney style stove and a caldera cone. I could go a week on one small 110 gram canister if I used the jetboil group pot with the neoprene wrapping and the heat exchanger base. The week was double what I got using the MSR Titan .85 kettle. I got 3 1/2 days with the MSR kettle. I boiled 3 cups in the morning and 3 cups at night. I did use the SP windscreen accessory. Now I use the MSR .85 kettle with a caldera cone. There is no mention of that extremely efficient system in the list.
